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CMS memo puts focus on governing body’s role in quality assessment & performance improvement

April 11, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS has significantly expanded its guidance to its state and regional surveyors, telling them to put more focus on governing bodies’ responsibility for quality assessment and performance improvement (...

Mac's Safety Space

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Mac’s Safety Space: Active safety culture

April 10, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

In the absence of embracing of a culture of safety throughout all levels of any organization, the folks who manage the physical environment would seem to be at something of a disadvantage. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Private patient data leaked by ransomware group D#nut Leaks

February 11, 2026

Cybersecurity & Technology, Workplace safety

Leaked data included patient files, medical histories, diagnoses, treatments plans, test results, and patients insurance information. The leak also included information on past and present MGH employe...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Patients want to receive medical test results immediately online, study finds

February 11, 2026

Cybersecurity & Technology, Policies and Procedures

The vast majority of patients want to receive test results online even if their healthcare provider has not reviewed the test results, according to a new research article. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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‘Tsunami of Criticism’ follows DEA’s proposed telemedicine prescribing rules

February 11, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Cybersecurity & Technology, Quality & Errors

Telehealth and digital health advocates aren’t pleased with the US Drug Enforcement Agency’s proposed rules for prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine after the expiration of the COVID-19 ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Black, white, or other—all American demographics suffer high maternal mortality

February 11, 2026

Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

The U.S. ranks dead last out of 13 industrialized nations when it comes to women dying during pregnancy or due to pregnancy-related complications, according to a 2022 report by the Commonwealth Fund. ...

Medical Environment Update

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Years of progress lost on antibiotic resistance thanks to COVID-19

February 11, 2026

Infection Control, Quality & Errors

According to a CDC Special Report, AMR infections and deaths increased 15% during the first year of the pandemic. ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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ECRI lists healthcare workplace violence as a top patient safety concern

April 04, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

ECRI, a long-standing patient safety organization in Pennsylvania, has listed verbal and physical violence against healthcare staff as its second-most important patient safety concern for 2023. ...

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Review environmental assessments for patient self-harm as TJC continues to press on suicide risk

April 04, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health

Surveyors are being trained to spot problems with environmental risk assessments required under National Patient Safety Goal 15. ...

Mac's Safety Space

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Mac’s Safety Space: Workplace violence–plotting your own course

April 03, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Including the workplace violence worksite assessment in the annual evaluation process will help keep the topic in mind, but also informg organizational leadership as to what’s going on and what suppor...

CMS memo puts focus on governing body’s role in quality assessment & performance improvement

Mac’s Safety Space: Active safety culture

Private patient data leaked by ransomware group D#nut Leaks

Patients want to receive medical test results immediately online, study finds

‘Tsunami of Criticism’ follows DEA’s proposed telemedicine prescribing rules

Black, white, or other—all American demographics suffer high maternal mortality

Years of progress lost on antibiotic resistance thanks to COVID-19

ECRI lists healthcare workplace violence as a top patient safety concern

Review environmental assessments for patient self-harm as TJC continues to press on suicide risk

Mac’s Safety Space: Workplace violence–plotting your own course

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